mar 3, 1867 - March 1867 Congress passes MIlitary Reconstruction Act

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This act nullified Johnson's programs and divided former Confederate states into 5 military districts (not TN)
Each former Confederate state had to hold another constitutional convention, creating a new convention that gave right to vote to all adult male citizens regardless of race, and it had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment before it could pass

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